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CHARITY REVIEW
Issued: November 2024 Expires: November 2026

Task Force for Global Health

Accredited Charity
Accredited Charity

Meets Standards

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330 West Ponce de Leon Avenue
Decatur, GA, 30030

Standards For Charity Accountability

Governance

  1. Board Oversight
  2. Board Size
  3. Board Meetings
  4. Board Compensation
  5. Conflict of Interest

Measuring Effectiveness

  1. Effectiveness Policy
  2. Effectiveness Report

Finances

  1. Program Expenses
  2. Fundraising Expenses
  3. Accumulating Funds
  4. Audit Report
  5. Detailed Expense Breakdown
  6. Accurate Expense Reporting
  7. Budget Plan

Fundraising & Info

  1. Truthful Materials
  2. Annual Report
  3. Website Disclosures
  4. Donor Privacy
  5. Cause Marketing Disclosures
  6. Complaints

Task Force for Global Health meets the 20 Standards for Charity Accountability.

Stated Purpose:
"to solve large-scale health problems through three impact areas: health system strengthening, center for vaccine equity, and neglected tropical diseases."

Year, State Incorporated:
1986, GA

Task Force for Global Health (Task Force) reports that it seeks to solve large-scale health problems with programs such as pandemic preparedness, polio eradication, field epidemiology training, public health informatics, health workforce development, and medical surplus recovery. The organization supported field work in outbreak investigations relating to foodborne disease, drug intoxication, dengue, measles, monkey pox, avian influenza, and more. Task Force also distributed grants towards preventing, controlling, and eliminating diseases such as intestinal worms, leprosy, polio, river blindness, trachoma, and viral hepatitis.

For the year ended August 31, 2023, Task Force for Global Health's program expenses were:

Health system strengthening: $26,782,292

Center for Vaccine Equity: $36,692,256

Neglected tropical diseases: $647,909,128

Total Program Expenses: $711,383,676

Chief Executive
Patrick O'Carroll, MD, Chief Executive Officer

Compensation*
$357,404

Chair of the Board
Kent Alexander, JD

Chair's Profession / Business Affiliation
Attorney

Board Size
12

Paid Staff Size
215

*2022 compensation includes annual salary and, if applicable, benefit plans, expense accounts, and other allowances.

Note: In 2022, President David A. Ross was the highest compensated employee, receiving $417,725.

Method(s) Used:
Direct mail appeals, Grant proposals, Internet, Special events

Fundraising costs were less than 1% of related contributions. (Related contributions, which totaled $628,809,066, are donations received as a result of fundraising activities.)

This organization is tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. It is eligible to receive contributions deductible as charitable donations for federal income tax purposes.

The following information is based on Task Force for Global Health's audited financial statements for the year ended August 31, 2023.

Source of Funds
Program support $80,050,254
Interest income $270,773
Investment income, net $1,007,787
In-kind contributions $628,809,066
Other income $270,773
Indirect cost recovery income $13,554,321
Total Income $723,929,351

Programs: 98% Fundraising: 0% Administrative: 2%

Total Income $723,929,351
Total expenses: $722,684,294
  Program expenses $711,383,676
  Fundraising expenses $80,757
  Administrative expenses $11,219,861
  Other expenses $0
Income in Excess of Expenses $1,245,057
Beginning Net Assets $75,847,095
Other Changes In Net Assets $0
Ending Net Assets $77,092,152
Total Liabilities $22,578,224
Total Assets $99,670,376

Note: According to Task Force's audited financial statements - consolidated - for the year ended August 31, 2023, the organization received $628,809,066 in donated pharmaceuticals.

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Report completed by:
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